J.K. Rowling Releases New ‘Harry Potter’ Short Story About a Singing Sorceress

This past June, she released a new story that imagined Harry Potter as a 34-year-old and two weeks ago, she penned a letter in the voice of Dumbledore to Cassidy Stay, who lost her family in a tragic shooting. Now, she’s released another new short story about Celestina Warbeck, a minor character from the series who’s inspired by Welsh singer Shirley Bassey.

Rowling released the story on the “Harry Potter” site Pottermore (pottermore.com) and also made it available to “The Today Show.”

“Celestina Warbeck is one of my favourite ‘off-stage’ characters in the “Harry Potter” series,” she explained. “I stole her first name from a friend with whom I worked, years ago, at Amnesty International’s Headquarters in London; ‘Celestina’ was simply begging to be scooped up and attached to a glamorous witch.”

Warbeck’s nickname is the “Singing Sorceress” and according to Pottermore, she performs songs off her debut album “You Stole My Cauldron But You Can’t Have My Heart” daily at the “Harry Potter” theme park in Orlando, Fl. According to the new story, other Wizard-themed Warbeck tunes include “A Cauldron Full of Hot, Strong Love” and “You Charmed the Heart Right Out of Me.” She often appears on the “Witching Hour,” a wizard radio program.